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    Director Alexandra Henry’s “Street Heroines” wins Best Documentary Award at Portland Film Fest

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    A scene from "Street Heroines"
    BROOKLYN, NY --

    Street Heroines, directed by Alexandra Henry (who’s repped in the ad arena by Valiant Pictures), has won the Best Documentary Award at the 2021 Portland Film Festival. This is the highest honor in the documentary category. The Portland Film Festival viewed 4,500 films in total, accepting 350 to the festival. 

    Street Heroines looks at the courage and creativity of female graffiti and street artists from around the world. From New York City, where Lady Pink and Claw $$ paved the way for female artists to use the streets as canvas, to São Paulo and Mexico City, Street Heroines gives voice to women fighting social injustice with creativity in the male-dominated subculture.

    The film is additionally part of the Official Selection lineup at the In Latino Film Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, going on until November 7thThe film will then travel to Barcelona, Spain for an in-person presentation on Sunday, December 5, at the DART Film Festival.  

    Henry is an alum of SHOOT’s 2019 New Directors Showcase.

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    Paramount says China’s Tencent withdrew from its Warner Bros bid to avert national security issues

    Thursday, December 11, 2025
    A man rides past the Tencent headquarters in Beijing, China on Aug. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

    Paramount Skydance says the Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings withdrew from its bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery to avert a possible national security review.

    Paramount's revised filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of its takeover bid said the Chinese company had dropped its $1 billion financing commitment out of concern, since it would be a "non-U.S. equity financing source," that its bid might be subject to a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS. That was even though approval by CFIUS or by the Federal Communications Commission was not a condition of the bid.

    The SEC filing, dated Monday, said that foreign sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, which are providing $24 billion for Paramount's bid, had agreed to give up a right to participate in Warner Bros' management to avoid the additional scrutiny.

    On Monday, Paramount launched a hostile $77.9 billion takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, competing with rival bidder Netflix to buy the company behind HBO, CNN and a famed movie studio.

    Big deals that involve foreign companies are sometimes subject to national security reviews by CFIUS, a U.S. government group chaired by the Treasury Secretary that studies mergers for national-security reasons. It has the power to force companies to change ownership structures or divest completely from the U.S.

    Under former President Joe Biden as well as President Donald Trump, the Treasury Department has sought to strengthen its powers as national security concerns related to foreign investment have increased.

    Tencent is among dozens of Chinese companies that the U.S. Defense Department has included in a list of companies it... Read More

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